In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording ...

Sebastian Gliga is developing a method to non-destructively digitise degrading magnetic tapes containing historic music recordings in high-resolution with the help of X-rays such as those generated by ...

Sebastian Gliga winding a tape on a Studer A80: The tape machine is on loan from Idee und Klang in Basel, the studio of sound engineer and composer Daniel Dettwiler. The analog device, which was ...

LTO-10, the newest generation of the LTO Ultrium tape format, was announced today. Full-height drives and media are available for immediate ordering from vendors like Symply and Spectra Logic.

National Audio remains the only US producer of magnetic tape for audio cassettes The cassette tape was king until the compact disk or CD passed it in 1991. One Ozarks business never lost faith in the ...

If you haven’t heard any lo-fi music yet, it stands for low-fidelity music. Lofi music today is characterized by audio imperfections such as cable noise or tape hiss. To get a pleasantly warm ...